2016 Maryland Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/2016-maryland-film-festival/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:45:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png 2016 Maryland Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/2016-maryland-film-festival/ 32 32 A Chat With Craig Atkinson (DO NOT RESIST) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-chat-with-craig-atkinson/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-chat-with-craig-atkinson/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:31:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26763 I met with director Craig Atkinson at the 2016 AFI DOCS on Sunday, June 26, 2016, to discuss his debut documentary, Do Not Resist (which I also reviewed here), which examines the rising tide of police militarization and how it contributes to […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-chat-with-craig-atkinson/feed/ 1 A Conversation With Livia Ungur & Sherng-Lee Huang (HOTEL DALLAS) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/a-conversation-with-livia-ungur-sherng-lee-huang/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 23:47:15 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26494 I met with co-directors, and wife and husband, Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang at the Maryland Film Festival on Sunday, May 8, 2016, to discuss their feature-length movie Hotel Dallas, a hybrid of documentary and fiction filmmaking, about the obsession […]

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]]> A Conversation With Michael Faulkner (SHU-DE!) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-michael-faulkner/ Tue, 31 May 2016 18:56:31 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26414 I met with director Michael Faulkner at the Maryland Film Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2016, to discuss his documentary feature SHU-DE! (the title means “let’s go” in Tuvan), about what happens when a Baltimore beat boxer, Shodekeh, travels to […]

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]]> HOTEL DALLAS https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/hotel-dallas-movie-review/ Thu, 26 May 2016 19:53:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26475

If anyone still doubts that Hollywood melodrama skates close to the edge of narrative madness, I offer Hotel Dallas as evidence for the prosecution. No wonder, then, that so many despots love our movies …

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]]> A Conversation With Mike Plunkett (SALERO) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/a-conversation-with-mike-plunkett/ Fri, 20 May 2016 13:51:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26408

I met with director Mike Plunkett at the Maryland Film Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2016, to discuss his documentary feature Salero (the title means “salt gatherer”), about a vanishing way of life on the salt flats of Bolivia, and […]

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]]> A Conversation With Kris Avedisian (DONALD CRIED) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-kris-avedisian/ Thu, 19 May 2016 14:41:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26400 I met with writer/director/actor Kris Avedisian at the Maryland Film Festival on Friday, May 6, 2016, to discuss his narrative feature Donald Cried, about an accidental reunion between two high-school friends grown very apart, which has been making the rounds […]

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]]> A Conversation With William Kirkley (ORANGE SUNSHINE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-william-kirkley/ Tue, 17 May 2016 20:06:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26395

I met with director William Kirkley at the Maryland Film Festival on Thursday, May 5, 2016, to discuss his documentary feature Orange Sunshine, about the history of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which has been making the rounds of the […]

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]]> ORANGE SUNSHINE https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/orange-sunshine-movie-review/ Wed, 11 May 2016 13:46:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26328

“Orange Sunshine” Offers a Sublime Tie-Dyed History Lesson

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]]> DONALD CRIED https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/donald-cried-movie-review/ Tue, 10 May 2016 14:10:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26287

“Donald Cried” Is the Perfect Micro-Budget Indie

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]]> SALERO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/salero-movie-review/ Sun, 08 May 2016 21:20:57 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26272

The debut documentary feature from director Mike Plunkett, "Salero" is both elegy and reportage, a combination of sublime visual grandeur and prosaic fact-filled journalism.

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